If the Connecticut school shooting occurred within a poor African American School of low social class.......?

[scanjet]

Would it get the news coverage and media attention that it's getting now. Would people care the same as they are in the Connecticut school shooting?

[11UN]

Really, you're playing the race card?! Contemptible.

[kacey59]

Of course it would... stop trying to be a race baiter. Not likely to happen though as everyone knows that statistically black serial killers are extremely rare....Young white males are the usual culprits of these crimes...

[oh come on!]

No, people would be less interested in a bunch of little black kids getting shot. The public is interested in blonde, blue-eyed angels getting massacred, not black kids.

[Foolishcoast978]

No. The students would pull their own pieces and blow the shooter away.

[SW11]

WTF has the colour of a kids skin got to do with it. They were innocent children full of hope for the future the same as black American kids are. What a nasty thing to say at such a time as this.

[RJ]

of course it would, and depending on the news source, if the shooter was still white, it would be considered a hate crime.

[Maddie]

Nope. No one cares when blacks perish, period. In their eyes, cute white children are harmless and blacks are dirty criminals from birth.

[tillan2k]

killing of negroid does not get same coverage as prez sneezing twice

[john]

Most folks would understand what you are saying, but let's get real hey? The CT shooting is in a prosperous upper class American Town, the tone of the reporting is going to be very different from that of a shooting in a working class district for many reasons. Already people are showing considerations and sympathies to the bereaved you would not find in another situation involving lower class people. For example a photograph that has been widely reproduced around the world showing a distraught mother weeping as she was informed her child was dead has drawn many complaints from people anxious to protect her privacy at this tragic time; 'this photograph is exploitation, not news' said one man, no one batted an eyelid when a similar photograph was taken at Dunblain. Like it or not, people care 'more' for the respectable people of CT than other people in similar tragedies, that's life.